Improvement in cooking-stoves



M. HOLDENER. Cooking Stove.

Patetod Feb. 9, 1869.r

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N-PETERS, PHQTO-UTHOGRAPMER, WASHINGTON, n. D,

tant' @anni @than a man MICHAEL HOLDENER, OIF BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS. Leners Perm No. 86,671, dated February Ae, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING-STOV'ES. m The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the sama.

To all .whom fit may concern part oi' this specification, in which- Figure '1 is an elevation of one side of my improved cooking-stove.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section, taken in a vertical plane through the centre of the improved stove.

Figure 3 is a transverse section, taken through the improved stove in the vertical plane indicated by line x x in tig. 2. A

' Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures. v

The object of this invention is to so construct a cooking-stove that a tight oven or4 chamber is formed on top of the-plate which has heretofore constituted the top of the stove, the top plate of which oven is perforated with large boiler-holes, and the side or sides of which oven are provided with a door or doors, for allowing access to the interior ofthe oven, thereby forming a chamber whose bottom plate willfbe actedupon by the direct heat of the the, so that boilers of various kinds can be subjected to heat without having their walls injured and sooted, and so that articles placed in this oven, or chamber, can be heated or more quickly cooked than could be done in the oven in the body of the store, all

,as `will be hereinafter explained.

Another object of the invention is to so combine a perforated top4 oven with a stove which has a bottom oven, made with an imperibrated double-top Wall, that provision is made for cleaning the iues of such stove, as hereinafter explained.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, I will describe its construction and op-V eration.

By reference 'to the accompanying drawings, it will be seen that the general form of the cooking-stove is the same as some of the well-known kitchen-cooks in common use; that is to say- A A represent the outer walls of a rectangular stove; B, the oven; C, Vthe hre-chamber; D,\the ash-pit; E, tli escape-iiue; and

c b,'the lines which conduct the products of eom` bustion around the oven B when the damper S is shut.

The flame from the hre-chamber C acts directly against the top plate A, which, in my stove, is imper forated.

At the back part of the stove, directly below the ascending-fine a, at the back of the oven, is an opening, lr, through the bottom plate of the stove, which opening leads into a drawer, K.

As the top plate of the stove is'impert'orated, for a receiving the boilers H, and through one side is an opening, closed by a door, J ,for aording access to the iuterior of' said chamber.

i llhe walls of this upper chamber are held down in place by means of vertical rods c, and the fine-pipe E' passes up through this chamber, as clearly shown in figs. 2 and 3.

'When pots or boilers are not used on top of cham.

ber G, the holes through plate G will be closed by covers, as shown in the drawings.

lh'e boilers or potsH are preferably made with long, contracted portions, which will extend down to the' plate A of the stove-,so that the bottoms of these vessels shall rest or impinge upon said plate, and-'thus receive a more intense heat than they otherwise would.

It will be seen, from the above description, that the chamber G not only serves as a means for protecting the vessels H from the injurious eiects of dame, but that this chamber forms a supplemental oven, which is well adapted for warming articles or for various cooking-purposes where a bottom heat is desirable.

I am aware that it is not new, broadly considered, to protect vessels placed upon the top plates of stoves from the direct action of dame and smoke, as this has been done by making imperforated depressions in the 'top plates of stoves, for receiving vessels also by using depressed dishes; and therefore I do not claim to be the first inventor of this principle.

I do not claim the employmentof a diaphragm, or` partition, between the topof an ordinary oven and the 'perforated top plate of a cook-stove; nor do I claim arranging an oven or circular drum, with closed top plate, and through which the -tlame is intended to circulate, upon the top of' such a stove, for these things are shown substantially in Motts patent of 1837, and also, in part, in the patents of Wilson, 1866, and Dickinson, 1835; but

What I do claim as an improvement on the inventions shown in said patents, and which I desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

. 1. The employment of the oven G, constructed with a perforated top plate, G', and with one or more doors J in its sides, in combinationlwith the imperforatedtop plate of the stove A, all in such manner that the shoulders of the pots and kettles overhang a portion of the top of the oven G, while their bottoms rest upon the imperforated-top plate of the stove, and also so that the process oi' baking may be carried on at pleasure in said oven, substantially asdescribed.

2. An oven, with boiler or kettle-holes in its top, applied to a cook-stove in such a manner that it een be used solely for cooking or roasting, by closing its pot or kettle-holes, zuid7 for heating Water in kettles or vessels, by opening said holes and inserting the kettle-bottoms through the same, allsnbstantially as descxibed. l

3. A perforated-top oven, G, in combination With a stovewliieh has an impelforated top, and also a pro vision for cleaning its u'es, substantially as described.

MICHAEL HOLDENER.

Witnesses:

EUGENE FRANZENLBERG, GEORGE-O. BUNSEN. 

